bretter
French, verb/bʁɛ.te/
bretter is spelled B-R-E-T-T-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 79 million words in written French, the 279,127th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bretter is a French verb meaning “to pick quarrels, to pick fights” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Pratiquer des dentelures, en taillant de la pierre, du bois, etc”.
What does bretter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to pick quarrels, to pick fights
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Pratiquer des dentelures, en taillant de la pierre, du bois, etc. 2. Dégrossir la terre au moyen d’un ébauchoir qui a des dents.
verb: 1. Faire le bretteur, chercher noise. 2. Prendre son temps inutilement pour faire quelque chose (être lent).
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of bretter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- brettant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- bretté participle past
- brette first-person indicative present
- brettes indicative present second-person
- brettons first-person indicative plural
- brettez indicative plural present
- brettent indicative plural present
- brettais first-person imperfect indicative
- brettait imperfect indicative singular
- brettions first-person imperfect indicative
- brettiez imperfect indicative plural
- brettaient imperfect indicative plural
- brettai first-person historic indicative
- brettas historic indicative past
- bretta historic indicative past
- brettâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bretter?
- /bʁɛ.te/
- /bʁe.te/
- \bʁe.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is bretter in French?
bretter appears about once in every 79 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).